Branches of Earth Science
The study of solid Earth
What is geology?
A molecule with a positive side and a negative side.
What is a polar molecule?
How closely packed the particles of matter are.
What is density?
The present is the key to the past.
What is uniformitarianism?
What is water?
Scientists that are interested in fossils and how ancient organisms lived.
Who are paleontologists?
The only substance on Earth that is stable in all three states: solid, liquid, and gas.
What is water?
Mass divided by volume.
What is the formula for calculating density?
James Hutton
Who created uniformitarianism as a process?
Have a higher concentration of hydronium ion.
What are acids?
The study of the oceans.
What is oceanography?
The property of water that results when molecules stick together due to their polarity; some insects can 'walk' on water because of this.
What is surface tension?
Solid water (ice) is less dense than liquid water.
Why does ice float in water?
Late 1700s.
When was uniformitarianism developed?
A solution with a lower concentration of hydronium ions than pure water.
What is a base?
Scientists who study the atmosphere.
Who are meteorologists?
H2O
What is the chemical formula of water?
grams
What is a typical mass unit?
In a closed system, energy may change forms but the total amount of energy is constant.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
What happens when the gases from the burning of fossil by industrial plants mixes with rain.
What is acid rain?
Who are astronomists?
What is the oxygen side?
mL or cm3
What are typical volume units?
The energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
SO2, CO2, and NO2
What are the chemical sources of acid rain?